1. Intraoperative cholangiography in the laparoscopic cholecystectomy era: why are we still debating?

   • F. Ausania
   • L. R. Holmes
   • S. A. White

   Editorial 22 March 2012 Pages: 1193 - 1200

   

2. A review of the role of GERD-induced aspiration after lung transplantation

   • P. Marco Fisichella
   • Christopher S. Davis
   • Elizabeth J. Kovacs

   Review 15 November 2011 Pages: 1201 - 1204

3. Single-incision laparoscopic surgery (SILS) vs. conventional multiport cholecystectomy: systematic review and meta-analysis

   • S. R. Markar
   • A. Karthikesalingam
   • P. Paraskeva

   Review 16 December 2011 Pages: 1205 - 1213

   

4. Does previous laparoscopic experience improve ability to perform single-incision laparoscopic surgery?

   • Trystan Lewis
   • Rajesh Aggarwal
   • Paraskevas Paraskeva

   OriginalPaper 17 December 2011 Pages: 1214 - 1219

   

5. Comparison of outcomes and costs between laparoscopic distal pancreatectomy and open resection at a single center

   • Adrian M. Fox
   • Kristen Pitzul
   • Allan Okrainec

   OriginalPaper 17 December 2011 Pages: 1220 - 1230

   

6. Performance curve of basic skills in single-incision laparoscopy versus conventional laparoscopy: Is it really more difficult for the novice?

   • S. A. F. Fransen
   • L. S. Mertens
   • N. D. Bouvy

   OriginalPaper Open access 20 November 2011 Pages: 1231 - 1237

   

7. Magnetic air capsule robotic system: proof of concept of a novel approach for painless colonoscopy

   • P. Valdastri
   • G. Ciuti
   • M. Morino

   OriginalPaper 17 December 2011 Pages: 1238 - 1246

   

8. Transumbilical single-port sleeve gastrectomy: initial experience and comparative study

   • Salvadora Delgado
   • Ainitze Ibarzabal
   • Antonio M. Lacy

   OriginalPaper 05 April 2012 Pages: 1247 - 1253

   

9. Mesh fixation with a barbed anchor suture results in significantly less strangulation of the abdominal wall

   • Calvin Lyons
   • Rohan Joseph
   • Brian J. Dunkin

   OriginalPaper 15 November 2011 Pages: 1254 - 1257

   

10. Sympathetic chain clipping for hyperhidrosis is not a reversible procedure

    • Jesus Loscertales
    • Miguel Congregado
    • Hugo Galera-Ruiz

    OriginalPaper 15 November 2011 Pages: 1258 - 1263

    

11. Laparoscopic ventral hernia repair: Does primary repair in addition to placement of mesh decrease recurrence?

    • Ambar Banerjee
    • Catherine Beck
    • Dean J. Mikami

    OriginalPaper 15 November 2011 Pages: 1264 - 1268

12. Staple versus fibrin glue fixation in laparoscopic total extraperitoneal repair of inguinal hernia: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    • Amit Kaul
    • Susan Hutfless
    • Michael R. Marohn

    OriginalPaper 21 February 2012 Pages: 1269 - 1278

    

13. The role of short-limb Roux-en-Y reconstruction for failed antireflux surgery: a single-center 5-year experience

    • Konstantinos I. Makris
    • Aru Panwar
    • Sumeet K. Mittal

    OriginalPaper 02 November 2011 Pages: 1279 - 1286

    

14. Comparison of complications after laparoscopy-assisted distal gastrectomy and open distal gastrectomy for gastric cancer using the Clavien–Dindo classification

    • Ju-Hee Lee
    • Do Joong Park
    • Han-Kwang Yang

    OriginalPaper 02 November 2011 Pages: 1287 - 1295

15. Intermediate results of a prospective randomized controlled trial of traditional four-port laparoscopic cholecystectomy versus single-incision laparoscopic cholecystectomy

    • Melissa S. Phillips
    • Jeffrey M. Marks
    • Sajani Shah

    OriginalPaper 15 November 2011 Pages: 1296 - 1303

    

16. Testicular functions, chronic groin pain, and quality of life after laparoscopic and open mesh repair of inguinal hernia: a prospective randomized controlled trial

    • Anand Narayan Singh
    • Virinder Kumar Bansal
    • Anand Kumar

    OriginalPaper 15 November 2011 Pages: 1304 - 1317

    

17. Single-port laparoscopic surgery is applicable to most gynecologic surgery: a single surgeon’s experience

    • Maria Lee
    • Sang Wun Kim
    • Young Tae Kim

    OriginalPaper 02 November 2011 Pages: 1318 - 1324

    

18. Outcome of laparoscopic modified Duhamel procedure with Z-shaped anastomosis for Hirschsprung’s disease

    • Naoto Urushihara
    • Koji Fukumoto
    • Takeshi Aoba

    OriginalPaper 02 November 2011 Pages: 1325 - 1331

    

19. Prevention of postoperative chylothorax with thoracic duct ligation during video-assisted thoracoscopic esophagectomy for cancer

    • Wei Guo
    • Yun-Ping Zhao
    • Ru-Wen Wang

    OriginalPaper 02 November 2011 Pages: 1332 - 1336

    

20. Trainees’ adenoma detection rate is higher if ≥10 minutes is spent on withdrawal during colonoscopy

    • Mark A. Gromski
    • Christopher A. Miller
    • Young Hwangbo

    OriginalPaper 16 November 2011 Pages: 1337 - 1342

    

21. Short- and long-term outcomes following percutaneous cholecystostomy for acute cholecystitis in high-risk patients

    • Andrew McKay
    • Moaz Abulfaraj
    • Jeremy Lipschitz

    OriginalPaper 17 November 2011 Pages: 1343 - 1351

    

22. Quantifying mental workloads of surgeons performing natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) procedures

    • Bin Zheng
    • Erwin Rieder
    • Lee L. Swanström

    OriginalPaper 04 November 2011 Pages: 1352 - 1358

    

23. Endoscopic ultrasound-guided endoscopic necrosectomy of the pancreas: is irrigation necessary?

    • Christian Jürgensen
    • Frank Neser
    • Annette Fritscher-Ravens

    OriginalPaper 15 November 2011 Pages: 1359 - 1363

24. Bilateral total extraperitoneal inguinal hernia repair (TEP) has outcomes similar to those for unilateral TEP: population-based analysis of prospective data of 6,505 patients

    • Markus Gass
    • Laura Rosella
    • Ulrich Güller

    OriginalPaper 24 November 2011 Pages: 1364 - 1368

25. Possible mortality reduction by endoscopic sphincterotomy during endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography: a population-based case–control study

    • Cecilia Strömberg
    • Urban Arnelo
    • Magnus Nilsson

    OriginalPaper 15 November 2011 Pages: 1369 - 1376

26. Robot-assisted total gastrectomy is comparable with laparoscopically assisted total gastrectomy for early gastric cancer

    • Hong Man Yoon
    • Young-Woo Kim
    • Ji Yoon Rho

    OriginalPaper 16 November 2011 Pages: 1377 - 1381

27. The prognostic impact of positive lymph nodes in stages T1 to T3 incidental gallbladder carcinoma: results of the German Registry

    • Thorsten Oliver Goetze
    • Vittorio Paolucci

    OriginalPaper 17 November 2011 Pages: 1382 - 1389

    

28. The safety of biologic mesh for laparoscopic repair of large, complicated hiatal hernia

    • Eelco B. Wassenaar
    • Fernando Mier
    • Brant K. Oelschlager

    OriginalPaper 16 November 2011 Pages: 1390 - 1396

    

29. Endoscope-assisted versus conventional second branchial cleft cyst resection

    • Liang-si Chen
    • Wei Sun
    • Xiaoming Huang

    OriginalPaper 17 December 2011 Pages: 1397 - 1402

    

30. Single-incision laparoscopic surgery using colon-lifting technique for colorectal cancer: a matched case–control comparison with standard multiport laparoscopic surgery in terms of short-term results and access instrument cost

    • Shoichi Fujii
    • Kazuteru Watanabe
    • Itaru Endo

    OriginalPaper 20 November 2011 Pages: 1403 - 1411

    

31. Fetoscopic management of gastroschisis in a lamb model

    • Robert Bergholz
    • Thomas Krebs
    • Kurt Hecher

    OriginalPaper 17 December 2011 Pages: 1412 - 1416

    

32. Oxidants as important determinants of renal apoptosis during pneumoperitoneum: a study in an isolated perfused rat kidney model

    • Wisam Khoury
    • Avi A. Weinbroum

    OriginalPaper 17 December 2011 Pages: 1417 - 1424

    

33. Transoral incisionless fundoplication (TIF 2.0) with EsophyX for gastroesophageal reflux disease: long-term results and findings affecting outcome

    • Pier Alberto Testoni
    • Cristian Vailati
    • Maura Corsetti

    OriginalPaper 15 December 2011 Pages: 1425 - 1435

    

34. Systemic inflammatory response after laparoscopic and conventional colectomy for cancer: a matched case–control study

    • Dimitrios Tsamis
    • George Theodoropoulos
    • George C. Zografos

    OriginalPaper 17 December 2011 Pages: 1436 - 1443

    

35. Cost of laparoscopy and laparotomy in the surgical treatment of colorectal cancer

    • Patrizia Berto
    • Stefania Lopatriello
    • Gianluigi Melotti

    OriginalPaper 17 December 2011 Pages: 1444 - 1453

    

36. 3D HD versus 2D HD: surgical task efficiency in standardised phantom tasks

    • Pirmin Storz
    • Gerhard F. Buess
    • Andreas Kirschniak

    OriginalPaper 17 December 2011 Pages: 1454 - 1460

    

37. Biomechanics of the front abdominal wall as a potential factor leading to recurrence with laparoscopic ventral hernia repair

    • Maciej Śmietański
    • Kamil Bury
    • Czesław Szymczak

    OriginalPaper 15 December 2011 Pages: 1461 - 1467

    

38. In vivo MRI visualization of mesh shrinkage using surgical implants loaded with superparamagnetic iron oxides

    • Nicolas Kuehnert
    • Nils A. Kraemer
    • Uwe Klinge

    OriginalPaper Open access 17 December 2011 Pages: 1468 - 1475

    

39. Serum leptin levels are inversely correlated with omental gene expression of adiponectin and markedly decreased after gastric bypass surgery

    • Jiegen Chen
    • Zehra Pamuklar
    • Alfonso Torquati

    OriginalPaper 17 December 2011 Pages: 1476 - 1480

    

40. Extreme bariatric endoscopy: stenting to reconnect the pouch to the gastrojejunostomy after a Roux-en-Y gastric bypass

    • Eduardo G. H. de Moura
    • Manoel P. Galvão-Neto
    • Flávio C. Ferreira

    Dynamic Manuscript 17 December 2011 Pages: 1481 - 1484

    

41. Medical image analysis: computer-aided diagnosis of gastric cancer invasion on endoscopic images

    • Keisuke Kubota
    • Junko Kuroda
    • Masaki Kitajima

    New Technology 15 November 2011 Pages: 1485 - 1489

    

42. Intracorporeal circular-stapled Billroth I anastomosis in single-incision laparoscopic distal gastrectomy

    • Takeshi Omori
    • Kouji Tanaka
    • Toshirou Nishida

    Technique 02 November 2011 Pages: 1490 - 1494